tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3158906472552558144..comments2015-03-02T08:15:11.963-05:00Comments on In the Middle: Raising a Modern Day KnightJeffrey Cohenhttps://plus.google.com/110433684739546897626noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-74323021075733349982007-07-10T19:48:00.000-04:002007-07-10T19:48:00.000-04:00I just finished reading the book, and initially wa...I just finished reading the book, and initially was skeptical that it might be like "Wild at Heart". It isn't. Lewis just uses the metaphor of training up a knight to apply lessons on deliberate fathering (Deut 6:7).Jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231800017706443193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-16411663479114156682007-04-12T17:15:00.000-04:002007-04-12T17:15:00.000-04:00I don't know whether to laugh or scoff at you. I s...I don't know whether to laugh or scoff at you. I see how this can be construed as mentioned above. However, this is a really good tool for bringing up young men with values, not just biblical values. Most importantly equipping young men with values they will need to be successful when they go out on their on. I hope you will check this out if you have a son.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-20147343827855932072007-04-01T00:54:00.000-04:002007-04-01T00:54:00.000-04:00In a world where there exists a faction of radical...In a world where there exists a faction of radicals who would like very much to slit the throats of every virtually every westerner, perhaps a new breed of "modern knight" with morals, patriotism and a desire to defend the oppressed isn't such a bad idea after all... wishful thinking I suppose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-78051284185945847252007-03-19T04:07:00.000-04:002007-03-19T04:07:00.000-04:00Isabel Davis's recent work Writing Masculinity (CU...Isabel Davis's recent work <I>Writing Masculinity</I> (CUP, 2007) addresses this problem of how to create/represent different kinds and forms of masculinity in later medieval English Lit. Have not got my copy yet - but in the light of some of the <I>queer theory</I> discussion elsewhere here, it would be worth looking out for. n50Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-33384565400752754962007-03-19T00:58:00.000-04:002007-03-19T00:58:00.000-04:00hey i just realized i was completely off topic the...hey i just realized i was completely off topic there... meh...<BR/><BR/>by the way does the idea of bringing back the christian knights of old scare anyone else? i can't help but think of crusades rapine and pillaging.RaeRaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359152226454336573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-75469095101705173252007-03-19T00:57:00.000-04:002007-03-19T00:57:00.000-04:00hey I liked the story of teh Duke of Bourbon durin...hey I liked the story of teh Duke of Bourbon during the Hundred's years war. He built a mine to a castle (while they were builidng one out to his camp) and then had to face off with a noble squire (the highest person of rank there) in said tiny mine all they could do was poke each other with their swords cause they couldn't move their arms from side to side... the duke got so excited that he gave out his signature war cry and the squire surrendered the city on the condition that the duke make him a knight... the duke agreed however suggested they put it off for a day so all their underlings could have fun poking each other too... <BR/><BR/>bicycle jousting... sounds fun... slightly dangerous but fun. Definately more entertaining the the doll rods me and a friend used to pretend to sword fight with all the time. (my mother hated that...)RaeRaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359152226454336573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-48569103353754405112007-03-18T20:57:00.000-04:002007-03-18T20:57:00.000-04:00I dunno about this being more secular than the oth...I dunno about this being more secular than the other- it seems to be connected to "Focus on the Family."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-45987836859232968562007-03-18T18:33:00.000-04:002007-03-18T18:33:00.000-04:00Or burns down a nunnery while his companions wince...Or burns down a nunnery while his companions wince at the smell of frying nuns (Raoul de Cambrai).<BR/><BR/>There are some chivalric entertainments I'd like to see come back. William FitzStephan describes a jousting game on the Thames: fun! And it'd probably be safer than the bicycle jousting I did when I was 10 (and certainly safer than propelling my, er, fatherhood at anything....)<BR/><BR/>Wild at Heart?<BR/><BR/>Re thanks: I only stood on the shoulders of Brantleys.Karl Steelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.com